90% of widely read books about Islam and the Prophet
Muhammad (s.a.w.) are written by Jews and Christians, most of which are not only
hostile but based on academic rubbish and lies read by likewise hostile
audiences that believe the intellectual garbage. It reminds me of an article I
read early in college, where an author, obviously pretending to be knowledgeable, whose article was published in a popular magazine, wrote that Muslims do not eat
pork because they worship the beast. Huh! What garbage; what ignorance!
While Jews and Christians like to write about Islam and the
Prophet of Islam with hostile intent, Muslims rarely, if ever, write about
Jesus and Christianity. Here comes one with an unquestionable academic background writing with respect about Jesus that will make many Christian writers of late feel shamed, causing a firestorm for one and only one reason; he is a Muslim.
“Why are you, a Muslim, writing about Jesus?” was Fox News ' first hostile question. Reza Aslan is writing about Jesus as an academic in the same light as he writes about Islam,
Hinduism, Judaism, and other religions, and not in the light of his religious
background, but thanks to Fox and the uproar…his book is becoming a best seller
phenomenon; Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.
The Fox News hostile interview of Reza Aslan backfired on
Fox, catapulting Azlan’s book from number 8 on a Friday to the number 1 spot on Sunday
at Amazon.com; just a day in between :-)
WIKIPEDIA
Reza Aslan (Persian: رضا اصلان; born May 3,
1972) is an Iranian-American writer and scholar of religions. He is an Associate Professor
of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside, a Research Associate at the University of Southern California
Center on Public Diplomacy, and a contributing editor for The Daily Beast. His books include the international bestseller No god but God:
The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, which has been translated into 13 languages, and Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus
of Nazareth,
which offers an interpretation of the life and mission of the historical
Jesus.
Aslan's family came to the United
States from Tehran in 1979, fleeing the Iranian Revolution. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. At the age of 15
he converted to evangelical Christianity.[5] He converted back to Islam the summer before attending Harvard.[6] In the early 1990s, Aslan taught courses at De La Salle High
School in Concord, California.
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